The governor of the Mexican state of Nuevo León, Samuel García, reported this Wednesday that The death toll rose to nine and 50 injured after the collapse of a stage during a campaign event of the presidential candidate of the opposition party Citizen Movement (MC), Jorge Álvarez Máynez, who was unharmed.
†Preliminarily we have nine people dead and 50 wounded with different types of injuries, some serious, others medium«We are still waiting for official data, we are waiting for the Prosecutor’s Office to do its part,» García told local media at the scene of the accident.
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The stage that had been installed for the closing of Lorena Canavati’s campaign, Citizen Movement candidate for mayor of San Pedro, Nuevo León, collapsed at the closing of the campaign held at the El Obispo baseball field. According to social media records, the accident occurred around 6 p.m. this Wednesday when a strong wind moved the stage.
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In the images, you can see the candidates Álvarez Máynez and Lorenia Canavati running to leave the stagewhile the towers and the main screen on the stage collapsed.
Agents from the state emergency and Civil Protection corps and the municipality of San Pedro arrived at the scene to care for the injured.
â€The members of my team who were injured are already being treated at the hospital. I am heading back to the scene to accompany the victims.†, wrote Álvarez Máynez on the social network X.
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Previously, the governor of Nuevo León, Samuel García, who emerged from MC, regretted the accident in a message on social networks and spoke of the weather conditions for Monterrey in the next few hours.
†Good evening, this is a very important message. I ask you to please take shelter, intense rains are coming in the next few hours. There was an event 15 minutes ago, unfortunately an accident occurred that left several people injured during a campaign closing in San Pedro Garza García,” the governor said in a message on the same social network. (With information from EFE)